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1 Public Presentation for Blue Gene Consortium Nov. 19, Jeff Wolf Deputy Director HPC Innovation Center This work was performed under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under contract DE- AC52-07NA Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC

2 24 rack IBM BG/Q (¼ size of Sequoia) LC Unclassified HPC Enclave provides access to external users including foreign nationals Joins Cab and Sierra Linux clusters for combined access to nearly 6PF of computing for industrial and academic projects Vulcan statistics: 5 PF/s target 0.4 PB memory, 393K cores, 1.57M threads 3.6 PB disk, 200GB/s LLNL-PRES

3 The High Performance Computing Innovation Center (HPCIC) is an outreach initiative to industry and academia by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy. In support of LLNL s national security mission to: boost American competitiveness accelerate science and technology advancements develop a future HPC- skilled workforce Situated on the Livermore Valley Open Campus, In Livermore, California 3

4 1) Engage with companies to deliver transformational HPC- based solutions that combine HPC expertise with supercomputing technologies 2) Engage with HPC ecosystem partners (equipment suppliers, ISVs, other HPC centers, academia, expert users, etc.) to collaboratively deliver sustainable advanced computing innovations that broadly benefit the economy 3) Engage with academia and students to advance computational sciences and develop future HPC- skilled professionals 4

5 Rapid assembly of experts Cost-effective access to resources High-impact solutions that deliver Multi- scale Codes Top 10 HPC System Visualization Big Data Analytics Code Development Frameworks Uncertainty Quantification Industrial Competitiveness Job Creation Workforce Development Decades of investments in supercomputing expertise accessible to industry 5

6 Award- winning multi- disciplinary computational science and engineering deep expertise in vital domains: ' Mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, material science ' Energy management, alternative energy technologies, life sciences, earth sciences, transportation, green technologies ' Cyber security, networking, program management ' Massively parallel computing, data analytics, visualization 6

7 Vulcan Vulcan 5.7+ PF of system access available now Hotline, user support, training and consulting Development tools availability and expertise Deep OS and file system knowledge 24x7 operations and call center Balanced HPC environment: Computation and storage Networking and visualization Support for >2800 users, 750+ remote Massive archival storage TF

8 Life Sciences Cardioid electrophysiology and mechanical codes Cardiotoxicity screening of prescription drugs Cardiovascular pathology and ECG response Medical devices and clinical medicine Molecular dynamics and drug design Big Data applications: - omics + clinical Computational Engineering Higher scaling for traditional FEA, CFD, EM, PIC Multi- physics and multi- scale Semiconductor ITRS difficult challenges LLNL codes, research codes and ISV codes Energy SMART Grid Alternative energy Infrastructure security

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10 Operates within LLNL s HPC Innovation Center as an HPC ecosystem partner option for industrial engagements Joint staffing of industrial partner projects by experts from both IBM and LLNL Extends HPCIC s range of industrial solutions to include integration, installation and management of enterprise- critical systems Built on 20 year track record of collaborative innovation Seven #1 ranked supercomputers, five Gordon Bell awards Shared commitment by IBM and LLNL to explore collaboration with other ecosystem partners to broaden adoption of advanced computing technologies by American industries 10

11 Anatomical model of human heart 96 racks of Blue Gene/Q in Sequoia Complete heart is million cells in a complex geometry Sub- domains of ~ cells must be mapped to each of 1.5 M cores Cell model must be computed on every cell for each time step including reaction and diffusion Sub- domains must exchange boundary data on each time step Code is written from scratch to take advantage of BG/Q hardware Extensive algorithmic improvements 1200x faster than previous record 2012 Finalist in Gordon Bell Prize

12 Partnership between LLNL and STFC - Daresbury, UK MOU signed August 29, 2013 connecting two similar organizations Both Hartree Centre and HPC Innovation Center focus on boosting innovation and economic competitiveness through HPC engagements with industry and academia Both centers utilize Blue Gene/Q supercomputers and Linux clusters Both parties see partnership as an opportunity to enable Sharing of expertise, best practices, tools, software, solutions, successes Rapid solution development on Blue Gene/Q, especially for data analytics BG/Q is #1 architecture on Graph 500 list Unique capabilities for large, multi- disciplinary projects, especially for multi- national organizations 12

13 Jeff Wolf Deputy Director HPC Innovation Center This work was performed under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under contract DE- AC52-07NA Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC

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